6. As they grew bigger, Peter started assigning party titles to his bros, which they used to address each other mid-party.

A boyar (one step below a prince) named Ivan Buturlin was named “The Polish King” (because nothing says “cultural sensitivity” like calling your very drunk friend the King of Poland), and his child army’s “Generalissimo”, Fyodor Romodanovsky, became “Your Majesty”.

7. Peter took these party titles so seriously that he would introduce Romodanovsky (“Your Majesty”) as the Tsar of Russia to defeated armies.

8. When Peter turned 18, he upgraded the “company” to a “synod”, calling it The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters.

The party went as legit as a party could get. It grew to include every single man of power within Peter’s government and men of the Russian Orthodox church as well. They named their own “Prince-Pope” and had bishops, archimandrites, priests and deacons – a literal church of partying.

As well as a college of party cardinals – partynals, if you will (which we will).

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9. In 1695, rather than participate in the traditional Russian Orthodox Epiphany baptismal ceremony, Peter elected a new party-pope.

He intentionally had the celebration for his new Pope on the same day he was supposed to be being baptized by actual priests. Pretty much exactly the kind of tact you’d expect from someone who loved alcohol with a religious reverence.